Contact Lens Prescription Verification Modernization Act
Summary
Contact Lens Prescription Verification Modernization Act This bill revises the requirements for the verification of prescriptions related to the purchase of contact lenses. Specifically, online sellers of prescription contact lenses must provide consumers with a method to transmit a digital copy of their prescriptions to such sellers. Online sellers also must encrypt protected health information they send by email. Additionally, the bill prohibits any seller of prescription contact lenses from using telephone calls with an artificial or prerecorded voice (i.e., robocalls) to verify a consumer's prescription.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
May 2021
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced May 20, 2021
Last action May 20, 2021
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2
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1
May 20, 2021
Committee
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
upper
May 20, 2021
Introduced
Introduced in Senate
upper
1 primary · 7 co-sponsors
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